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Re: [Xen-users] Re: preferred XEN dom0 OS

To: Rudi Ahlers <Rudi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Re: preferred XEN dom0 OS
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 20:56:50 +0300
Cc: Grant McWilliams <grantmasterflash@xxxxxxxxx>, Carsten Heesch <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Xen User-List <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Fajar A. Nugraha" <list@xxxxxxxxx>
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On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 12:10:52PM +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Carsten Heesch <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi Rudi,
> >
> >> Does anyone use XEN with Scientific Linux?
> >>
> >> What version do you run, and what's your experiences with it so far?
> >
> >
> > Running four Scientific Linux 6.1 boxes in a heavy testing environment 
> > here, with
> > Xen 4.1.1, and kernel from M A Young 
> > (http://xenbits.xen.org/people/mayoung/testing/x86_64/), because his 
> > kernels are by far closest to RedHat's specs.
> >
> > Works very well. No problems so far. (Scientific Linux is essentially just 
> > another RHEL-clone, which gives you the option to install extra bits, but 
> > by default doesn't do so.)
> >
> > As guest OS, I'm running CentOS 5.6 (PV), Scientific 6.1 (PV), FreeBSD 
> > (both HVM and PV).
> >
> >
> >
> > Cheers
> > Carsten
> >
> 
> 
> I couldn't find anything on the net about M A Young, other than people
> on the list recommending his kernels, so I don't know how trustworthy
> it is.
>

M A Young is the Fedora Xen rpms maintainer, 
working very actively on Xen for Fedora.

And his "xendom0" el6 kernels are available on xenbits:
http://xenbits.xen.org/people/mayoung/testing/

It's currently based on RHEL 6.1 kernel (kernel-2.6.32-131.12.1.el6.xendom0).
 

> CentOS 6 + XEN was a total mess and the CentOS crowd are very hostile
> towards supporting that combination.
> 

Remember CentOS does not develop anything or support anything, 
it's *Redhat* RHEL6 that dropped Xen dom0 support.

Then again CentOS people *are* willing to include Xen/dom0 rpms in centosplus 
repository (or so). 
Those rpms just needs active (co)maintainer.

> 
> 
> Does anyone use XEN 4.x on Debian, in production?
> how well does it work?
> 
> 
> 
> OR, is XEN busy dying a slow death and I should rather look @ VMWare or KVM?
> 

Xen is very actively developed, and used in multiple vendors products.

Recently Xen dom0 support was merged to upstream Linux 3.0,
and because of that upcoming Fedora 16 (developed/sponsored by Redhat) 
will include Xen dom0 support again.

-- Pasi


> 
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> Rudi Ahlers
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